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How to enable (and use) Clipboard History in Windows 11

Posted on January 24, 2022

Soon after Windows 10 was released Microsoft made a very useful upgrade to the Clipboard via a new tool called Clipboard History.

In days of old the Windows Clipboard was limited to storing just one item at a time: the last item you either ‘copied’ or ‘cut’.

That was a pretty severe limitation since whatever was currently stored in the Clipboard was wiped out and overwritten the next time you copied or cut another item.

Clipboard History changed that by allowing the Clipboard to store up to the last 25 items that you either copied or cut. You can then choose among them when you needed to ‘paste’ something that’s stored there. [Read more…]

How to give your smartphone or tablet a fully-functional clipboard

Posted on November 29, 2021

Just like desktop and laptop computers, all smartphones and tablets have a very basic clipboard that allows you to “copy” and “paste” text from one app to another.

Unfortunately, that’s about all you can do with it. Even worse, the contents of the clipboard are overwritten every time you “copy” something else.

The good news is you can download a handy third-party clipboard app that will give your phone a fully-functional clipboard. [Read more…]

How to clear the contents of the Windows Clipboard

Posted on July 8, 2021

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As you probably know, Microsoft Windows has a “Clipboard” for storing text, photos and other information that we “copy” or “cut” from a web page or other document to paste into yet another document.

The Clipboard is easily one of the handiest features in Windows.

It’s always there waiting for us when we need it, and it will gladly store most anything we need to copy from one location and paste to another.

Most people don’t give a second thought to the security of the Clipboard. After all, we rarely have anything stored in there can could be considered a security risk.

However, there are times when it might be wise to erase the contents of the Clipboard. Here are a couple of common examples: [Read more…]